FLOWER-GARDEXIXG. 99 



That the directions accompanying our Catalogue of Annual, 

 Biennial, and Perennial Flower Seed, will apply to such plants 

 in the green-house department as are ordinarily raised from 

 seed. 



The directions annexed to the Catalog^ue of Flowerino; and 

 Ornamental Shrubs, including propagation by cuttings, layers, 

 etc., are applicable to a great portion of the plants hereinafter 

 descnbed ; and also to such Bulbous roots as are generally 

 embraced in green-house catalogues, from their being adapted 

 to artificial culture, having been already treated of, under each 

 head, in numerous articles ; to which the reader is referred. 



With the exception of hot-house plants, which require a 

 uniformly warm climate to perpetuate their existence, all such 

 other tender and half-hardy plants as need protection in winter, 

 may come under the denomination of green-house plants ; some 

 species, however, may be preserved in frames, pits, cellars, or 

 warm rooms. Many of those species designated thus § and 

 thus f in our first two catalogues, are of such description ; and 

 as they have been treated of in the chapters thereto annexed, 

 the following catalogue and explication will be necessarily brief, 

 ■when compared with one general catalogue of exotic plants. 



DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



Acacia. Of this and the Mimosa, which are by some con- 

 sidered as one genus, there are upwards of a hundred species 

 and varieties, suited for artificial culture. The blossoms, which 

 are generally straw-color and yellow, except the most tender, 

 some of which are crimson, succeed each other from February 

 to June. 



Agapanthus. A beautiful species of Lily, producing large 

 blue flowers from April to June ; some varieties have striped 

 leaves and delicate white blossoms. 



